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Egypt's official news agency says a 4-year-old girl has died of bird flu, making her the country's 27th death from the virus since 2006.
Bird flu kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but doesn't easily pass from person to person. Swine flu can be spread with a sneeze or handshake, but kills only a small fraction of the people it infects.
Four Indonesians have died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country hardest hit by the disease over the past several years to 119, an official said Tuesday.
A 21-year-old woman in central China has been infected by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country's eighth reported case of the disease this year, the Health Ministry said.
Two Indonesians have died of bird flu, apparently after contact with sick chickens, raising the country's death toll to 115, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.
A woman in China's far west has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Health Ministry said Saturday, the country's fourth death from the virus this year as the biggest festive season approaches.
A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.
Authorities in eastern China have killed more than 300,000 fowl after bird flu was discovered in chickens, the Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday.
Hong Kong authorities confirmed Thursday that the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu has caused an outbreak at a local chicken farm.
Indonesian health officials say a 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu.
When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.
In a Sept. 15 story about tests confirming the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus at a poultry farm outside Lome, The Associated Press reported erroneously that this was the first outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo.
Tests performed after an outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, state media said Monday.
An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in the West African nation of Togo for the first time since last year, the Health Ministry said Tuesday.
South Korea plans to declare itself free of bird flu this week, more than three months after a series of outbreaks led authorities to slaughter nearly 8.5 million birds, an official said Sunday.
An Indonesian factory worker died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 112, a top health official said Sunday.
An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world's hardest hit nation to 111 in three years.
South Korea said Monday it has lifted all special restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of bird flu after a series of recent outbreaks.
Health officials ordered the slaughter of all live poultry in Hong Kong's street markets on Wednesday after detecting one of the largest outbreaks of the bird flu virus in years.
A teenager died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided not to announce the death right away. It is part of a new policy aimed at improving the image of the nation hardest hit by the disease.
Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected.
Indonesia announced Thursday it would start sharing all information about its bird flu cases with a new global database to monitor whether the disease is mutating into a dangerous pandemic strain.
South Korean officials said Monday they have killed all poultry in Seoul, the capital, to curb the spread of bird flu following a new outbreak of the disease in the city.
Indonesia launched a major bird flu drill Friday that will test the ability of the nation hardest hit by the virus to respond to a possible pandemic. Thousands were taking part, from local residents to government officials.
Indonesia does not want money for its samples of a deadly bird flu virus, a health official said Wednesday after the U.S. criticized his country for refusing to share the samples with the international community.
12 Monkeys and Swine flu: Warning shotIt is scandal he said to Spiegel, 'the health authorities have fallen for a campaign from the pharmaceutical companies, who simply want to earn money with an alleged threat'.
President Obama declared a "National Emergency" today, October 24, 2009, because of the Swine Flu, but can that declaration lead to the U.S.
Swine Flu Document Lists Sports Arena As Mass Vaccination CentreIt appears that the majority of U.S.
Did U.S. government lie about deadly virus? U.S. officials seem to have quietly reversed an assurance they gave publicly last month—that a deadly virus, which scientists recently recreated, would not leave a secure government facility.
Planning ChecklistsEvery American citizen should read any and all information related to the swine flu pandemic and the swine flu as well as what the government plans are for the American people and the swine flu.
U.S. Infection Rate Set at 50% with 90,000 DeathsUp to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 could die this season, according to a dire report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. More Articles
MAP: Swine Influenza (as of 29 Apr 2009) - Location MapIt's amazing that the U.S. government never referred to the AIDS virus as a communicable disease since its inception many years ago nor did they call out a pandemic to my knowledge.
What's it really like to have swine flu? Two sufferers tell their stories You've seen the headlines and read the advice, but what's it really like to have swine flu? Thousands are suffering from aches, fever and nausea, but the symptoms seem to be different for each person. Here two swine flu sufferers tell their stories...
H1N1 Pandemic Spreading Too Fast to CountThe World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case. More Articles
Evidence of the Use of Pandemic Flu to Depopulate USAJournalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder. This is the evidence she revealed to the FBI [PDF]
First 'Healthy' Swine Flu Death"We've all been gritting our teeth, waiting for this to happen, and now it has. This doesn't necessarily mean the virus has mutated. "Whether more patients with no underlying health problems die of the disease really depends on what the virus does next." More Articles
Human noses too cold for bird flu. 23:02 GMT, Thursday, 14 May 2009 00:02 UK Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say.
In Man vs Virus, the Win Goes to the SwiftDiseases are an actual product of these things that we do. For the first time ever we were able to prove that scientifically. Human activity drives the emergence of new diseases. Everybody says it, everybody thinks they know it, but we were actually able to show it definitively.
Human noses too cold for bird fluBird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say.
Top Flu Expert Warns of a Swine Flu-Bird Flu Mix Bird flu kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but doesn't easily pass from person to person. Swine flu can be spread with a sneeze or handshake, but kills only a small fraction of the people it infects. So what happens if they mix?
Novartis and other firms start work on swine flu vaccine - Apr. 28, 2009Manufacturers have taken the first preparatory steps in developing a vaccine against a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico and threatens to become a pandemic.
"when pigs fly!" you ever heard that old saying? i grew up in a small town in east texas and in the ozarks of missouri. and it was a pretty clean way of saying, "when hell freezes over" or "it's not going to happen unless the world as we know it turns upside down."
Swine flu fears prompt quarantine plans, pork bans - washingtonpost.comGENEVA -- Countries planned quarantines, tightened rules on pork imports and tested airline passengers for fevers as global health officials tried Sunday to come up with uniform ways to battle a deadly strain of swine flu.
More cases of swine flu reported; WHO warns of 'health emergency' - CNN.comA potentially deadly new strain of the swine flu virus cropped up in more places in the United States and Mexico on Saturday, in what the World Health Organization called "a public health emergency of international concern." The most recent reports Saturday afternoon were of two …
CDC: Swine flu viruses in U.S. and Mexico match - CNN.comU.S. health officials expressed concern Friday that a swine flu virus that has infected eight people in the United States matches samples of a virus that has killed at least 68 people in Mexico. U.S.
Bird/swine Flu Distributed by Dept of Homeland Security ?Mary", caller to the Power Hour on March 30, 2009, gives many details that the Dept of Homeland Security is transporting and distributing bird flu in mass quantities.
Swine Flu OutbreakMr. Cordova told local media the flu is a "new, different strain ... that originally came from pigs."
7 People Contract "Swine Flu": Never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans"We believe at this point that human-to-human spread is occurring," Schuchat said. "That's unusual. We don't know yet how widely it is spreading ... We are also working with international partners to understand what is occurring in other parts of the world."
Egyptian woman contracts bird fluA 33-year-old Egyptian woman has contracted the highly pathogenic bird flu virus, the fourth case this month, Egyptian state news agency MENA said.
Rapid avian flu test cleared by FDAThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has green-lighted a test that can quickly determine whether a person is infected with deadly avian flu.
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